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Note citations are based on reference standards however formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study the specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher classroom teacher institution or organization should be applied. Indeed the face of british admiral john fisher in a photograph tacked to her closet door for 40 years has haunted esteemed british travel writer jan morris all these many years shes now completed the biography of jacky fisher shes been planning since 1951 when she first came across his fascinating visage. John arbuthnot fisher 1st baron fisher gcb om gcvo 25 january 1841 10 july 1920 commonly known as jacky or jackie fisher was a british admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. Admiral sir john arbuthnot jackie fisher spent nearly half of his naval career in an effort to drag the royal navy from the sleepy 19th century into the violent melee of the 20th fisher certainly made many mistakes along the way and his departure from the admiralty in 1910 also allowed more traditional leaders in the royal navy to limit or discard some of his revolutionary principles. This increased lord fishers regard for mr churchill and on july 30th 1914 at his request lord fisher spent hours with him on that fifth day before war was declared and by his wish saw mr balfour to explain to him the naval situation